Archive for October, 2007

New Layout… Soon!

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

I had said a while back that I was going to do a new layout/theme for my blog but I haven’t gotten around to it until this weekend. But it’s taking me longer than normal because I made it from scratch, rather than taking someone else’s and changing it. If this was a normal site I would have had something of my own right from the start, but because it’s running on WordPress I have to do extra coding that I’m not used to. I’ve gotten the layout itself and most of the stylesheet done. All I’m doing now is working in the WordPress loops. And because I’m not working from an already existent WP theme, I’m going through the docs on the WordPress site to get all the code snippets and loops to put in. It might take a while since I have to do it on multiple pages to get the whole thing to look how I want it to look. But I think now that I finally got the layout looking how I want it, it shouldn’t take me too long to get it up here. Anyways, I’m pretty happy with what I have so far, and I just hope that I don’t get sick of it before I put it up, because I have done that before. But I’m not into the testing on WordPress phases yet, and while I was in the layout testing phase I hadn’t gotten sick of it. So far so good I guess.

Anyways, that’s all for now. I think I’m going to head to bed.

Talk to you all later.

Keira

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Looking for a Good Challenge

Friday, October 19th, 2007

My scripting class is still driving me insane. I’m finding it way too easy! Even though I’ve never really used Dreamweaver before I don’t really feel like I’m learning anything. I’m starting to appreciate what Dreamweaver does, but I’m still a code girl at heart (I heart CodeGrrl.com lol, that has nothing to do with anything but it some how seemed to fit). Eventually I will probably actually use Dreamweaver, but as of right now, I do not have it on my computer. Actually, that’s a lie. I have an expired trial version of it on my computer. But yeah, I usually end up sitting around bored in Jim’s class because he takes too long to do his examples. I know he can’t go at my speed but I wish he could. I think he might actually be going too fast for most of the class, but I’m not included in that “most” group. Debbie and I joke around that that’s why she sits by me in class because I can help her with stuff. But seriously, this class is making me insane because I really feel like I’m learning nothing so far. I think the only thing I’ve gotten out of the class, other than the appreciation of Dreamweaver, is how to go up a directory while still using relative URLs.

You put ../ at the beginning of the URL.

Seriously, that’s really the only thing I didn’t know for coding that I didn’t know before I started this class. It’s somewhat depressing.

At least all my other classes aren’t as bad. I’m catching on to everything pretty quickly in all my other classes, but I actually feel like I’m learning stuff in those classes. Well, Graphic Design kind of fits somewhere in between actually because I know Adobe Photoshop pretty well, and we’re doing mostly stuff I already knew how to do, just a bit different than how I normally do them. There’s so many different ways to do everything in Photoshop, usually at least three different ways. But I’m learning how to take better pictures. I finally learned what the aperture does (my dad had tried to teach me a long time ago but the way he explained it, it just didn’t sink in) and how to work with aperture and shudder speed and how to adjust lighting and whatnot in Photoshop. So I am learning in that class, but it’s not really all new stuff for me.

Anyways, I guess that’s my ranting for the day lol.

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Scary Thoughts

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Ok, so I’ve been missing London a lot lately. I wasn’t really sure why and I’m not positive that my new theory is right either. My latest theory on why I’ve been so depressed lately (no I haven’t really been showing it, well I was trying not to too much, but that’s habit, sorry) is that there have been things happening, mostly just emotionally, that have been bringing back memories of high school, and not good memories. Nothing totally horrible or anything but just little things that I never really told many people about, and I don’t really want to start now, or here. But yeah, I’ve been remembering these things and they’ve been making me really depressed. I didn’t realize it until Sunday, when it got really bad. But thanks to Roseann, today was a bit better. She made me hyper today. I haven’t been this hyper in quite a while. Actually Saturday was the best day, before today, that I had had in quite some time as well. That was because I spent I’m estimating about 6 and a half hours with Cecil, doing well, not much at all but it was really fun. I wasn’t hyper then, but I was actually happy, and I haven’t felt like that in a while.

But anyways, I’m getting off topic. I was thinking today about London, and while I was in the shower about half an hour ago I thought that I should look into what Fanshawe has for web design programs. I’ve been seriously debating whether or not to even bother going through with the whole Humber idea and if it was really worth it. I might be, but I also think that I’m going to be learning a lot of that stuff here at Lethbridge anyway, but I’m not going to be making any official decisions until 2009 rolls around.

So I looked at the Fanshawe website and they have two one year programs that caught my eye:

I’m leaning towards the web development one but the Advanced Multimedia might be interesting too. Again, this isn’t official but it’s another option that I’m considering. Although the only options I was considering before were to take the Web Design, Development and Maintanence program at Humber or not to take it. But I still have more than a year and a half to decide, so I guess we’ll see what happens.

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Mood Improvement

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Ok, so here’s something that improved my mood a little bit, I got an email from Cal, my Digital Audio instructor, with my grades so far. And my grades so far in that class are as follows:

Quiz 1: 91%
Quiz 2: 107%
Assignment 1: 100%

I’m pretty happy with that. I mean, who wouldn’t be. Actually, for me, these are some amazing marks for me. In high school, anything above 70% was a pretty good mark for me. So I’m excited. And this is my least favourite class too, mostly because of the assignments where I have to record and listen to myself over and over again. I haven’t really gotten any marks from any of my other classes, well, except the quizes in Multimedia Prinicples & Design but we do those ones differently and I don’t remember the exact marks from them.

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No Transitory

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

No Transitory

I’m in a constant state of getting cut
So why don’t I feel anything
This is a violation
Maybe I forgot what it was like before it entered me
So this is what they call another endless night
So tired of believing if this is wrong or right
I think this cause is lost, I wish that I could sleep
I feel like some kind of shadow, another slave to the week
Imagine if we lived, under the weather
We would never be found, never discovered
If everything goes wrong if it’s one more endless night
You know there’s always tomorrow and tomorrow…
This knife this knife
It is my most important appendage
So now that your whole world has gone up into flames
This night is still never ending do you think your still safe
Seems everything went wrong we were discovered
But this time there’s no tomorrow and tomorrow…

by Alexisonfire
written by Alexisonfire

Album: Watch Out

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A Grand Ol’ Time

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Ok, so I wasn’t really having the best day today. I don’t know what it was but I was feeling a bit down. Depressed. It happens. But then while I was doing… nothing actually. I was honestly just sitting and staring at my laptop. I really wasn’t doing anything. I had music playing, maybe that’s what it was, I was just zoned out or something. Anyways, while I was doing nothing, my friend Cecil called me. The last time I saw him was in high school before he moved. I actually don’t know what year he moved. I’m thinking grade 10 but I stand to be corrected. But he’s down for the weekend and he wants to hang out. We’ve been talking on Facebook a bit. He was going to come down a few weeks ago (I think the weekend before Thanksgiving) but then he didn’t. But we exchanged cell phone numbers so we could get together when he did end up coming down. So yeah, he called me, and for some reason the conversation we had on the phone was really amusing. It cheered me up though. I was smiling and laughing to myself for quite a while afterwards, even while I was watching Ghost Whisperer and Moonlight (during commercials of course lol). I’m not even sure specifically what part of the conversation it was that made me feel better. I guess it was the whole conversation in general. But the first amusing part was he was trying to park somewhere and he didn’t know if he could park there and he was all confused, and then he was yelling at someone asking whether or not he was allowed to park there, and then he was mad because where he was going to park was angle parking. It was quite amusing. I’m pretty sure he ended up parking somewhere else, course I wasn’t there, I was just on the phone with him the whole time lol. And then I said I’d let him go (because he was going to eat dinner) and since the whole point of this entire thing was to make plans to hang out, so we’re going to do something tomorrow, but the best part was that he said that we will get together tomorrow and “it will be grand.” Those were is words. “It will be grand.” I think that just made my day. I don’t know why but I found it very amusing.

Yeah, anyways, that’s my story for the day. I’m going to go to bed now, in a much better mood than when I woke up this morning.

Have a good weekend everyone! I will see you all later!

Keira

P.S. This is really random, but I had to mention it. I have Much Music on right now, and it’s Punch Much. They just played “Fuck the Shit” by Sons of Butcher 3 times. Yes, 3 times. Why? I don’t know. But I also found this amusing. Oh, and they played “I’m an Asshole” by Dennis Leary too, which I think is one of Cara’s favourite songs. Of course, I had to text her to tell her that her song was on Much. lol.

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Haunted

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Haunted

Louder, louder
The voices in my head
Whispers taunting
All the things you said

Faster the days go by and I’m still
Stuck in this moment of want you here

Time
In the blink of an eye
You held my hand, you held me tight
Now you’re gone
And I’m still crying
Shocked, broken
I’m dying inside

Where are you?
I need you
Don’t leave me here on my own
Speak to me
Be near me
I can’t survive unless I know you’re with me

Shadows linger
Only to my eye
I see you, I feel you
Don’t leave me side

It’s not fair
Just when I found my world
They took you, they broke you, they tore out your heart
I miss you, you hurt me
You left with a smile

Mistaken, your sadness
Was hiding inside
Now all that’s left
Are the pieces to find

The mystery you kept
The soul behind a guise

Where are you?
I need you
Don’t leave me here on my own
Speak to me
Be near me
I can’t survive unless I know you’re with me

Why did you go?
All these questions run through my mind
I wish I couldn’t feel at all
Let me be numb
I’m starting to fall

Where are you?
I need you
Don’t leave me here on my own
Speak to me
Be near me
I can’s survive unless I know you’re with me

Where are you?
Where are you?
You were smiling

by Kelly Clarkson
written by Kelly Clarkson, Jason Halbert, Jimmy Messer

Album: My December

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All the Pretty Flowers

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Ok, so for those of you who haven’t seen my picture for my Graphic Design assignment you should read my other post first (Help with Graphic Design Assignment) so you understand. And I would also like to see if you can guess the word too. So read that post before you read anymore of this one because I say the work in it. And just to keep you from cheating, I’m going to cut off this post with a “More” link.

So, Leanne had the class critique everyone’s pictures for the the assignment where we had to take a picture to represent a word and what some people said about mine was that maybe the person’s face shouldn’t have been blurred out. That was really the only thing they said that wasn’t positive about my photo. I took a bunch where the person’s face wasn’t blurry but I felt that one was the best because it’s the flowers that are creating the scent to the focus should be more on the flowers, not on the person smelling them. But they thought the nose should have been in focus too. I don’t know. I still think I chose the right one.

Anyways, here’s my photo with my word in it, which was also part of the assignment, to hand-write our word and put it into the image. We had to either use a Wacom Tablet or write it on a piece of paper and scan it. I wrote it about 50 times on three pieces of paper before I was satisfied and scanned it into my computer.

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Help with Graphic Design Assignment

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Ok, I should have done this sooner but I just thought it it now. I have this assignment for my graphic design class, where I’m supposed to take a picture to represent a certain word. We were given three words to choose from. I’ve taken a picture that I think might represent my word, but to make sure that it is successful I want to know if someone else can guess what the work is. So take a look at the picture and let me know what you think the word is that I’m trying to represent.

For those of you who already know what my word is, go away :P lol.

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I’m hoping someone will post today, since this is due tomorrow.

Thanks.

Keira

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